Two men linked to a recent stabbing death have been arrested, and a woman who may have masterminded the Feb. 6 home invasion is being sought, according to an affidavit filed Thursday in District Court.

He and Tasha Lamere, a Spokane resident and a cousin of the dead man, are suspected of planning the home invasion near Benefis East, in which Daniel Matt Jr., 18, was fatally stabbed.

In fact, one of the eyewitnesses has accused Lamere of setting up the break-in, which police have said was drug- and gang-related, in an attempt to get a Spokane man who was in the home at the time.

Also in custody is Anthony Francis Book, 26, of 1534 4th Ave. N.W., who was staying with Rivera. He is being held on $50,000 bond, charged with criminal possession of dangerous drugs, and has implicated at least one other man in the break-in.

No one has been charged in the homicide. The investigation continues, and more arrests and charges are pending, although it seems that many of the suspected players already are in custody on unrelated charges.

Detectives declined Thursday to comment on anything outside the scope of the affidavit.

They have called this a complicated case, bogged down by a host of conflicting stories gathered that night and in the subsequent weeks.

What can be pieced together so far from the affidavit, filed late Thursday, is this:

The stabbing occurred around midnight at a home at 1105 25th St. S., which is connected by a short hallway, called a breezeway, to Matt's home at 2500 11th Ave. S.

Larson, whose mother, Patricia Larson Lamere, lives at 1105, told detectives that she was sitting on the couch when a woman with dark curly hair knocked on the door and asked for Carlena Lamere.

The unidentified woman looked to the right, stepped back, and two men with guns entered the room.

One was wearing dark clothes and an Afro-type wig; his face was not covered and Larson did not recognize him. The other had a red bandana across his face, a tight knit hat called a beanie and a dark sweatshirt with the hood pulled up.

Rivera has admitted to police that he was high on meth, according to the affidavit, and wearing an Afro wig that night. It is not clear from the affidavit if he participated in the break-in, although he is charged with accountability to burglary.

Larson also saw another man in the back of the house in a dark "South Pole" shirt. He was wearing a black bandana across his face and carrying a knife with a black handle and a 4- or 5-inch blade. He also had a gun.

The middle-schooler told police there also may have been a second man; the two were at the back of the breezeway when the boy saw them.

The two men who came in the front door ordered everyone to the floor; Adams and Hanway complied.

Larson, however, headed for 2500, the front house, and encountered Matt in the breezeway. She continued on to the front door of 2500, then heard the man in the black bandana yelling that they needed to get out of there. They fled in a gold or tan SUV.

Larson went looking for Matt, and found him at the end of the block, with police. They took him to Benefis East, where he died eight hours later of a single stab wound to the heart.

The middle-schooler told police he saw Matt being pushed down the breezeway; Matt was stabbed in 1105's back yard in a confrontation the boy said he heard but did not see.

According to the affidavit, Larson told Mary Matt, Daniel's mother, that Lamere arranged the break-in. No explanation is given for how Larson came to this conclusion.

Further investigation led to interviews with others who claim to have knowledge of the crime, the affidavit said.

All are providing pieces of the puzzle:

Book, Rivera's friend, has implicated John W. Latray in the break-in, telling police he lied when he told them Latray was at the home of his girlfriend, Crystal Vermillion, at the time of the attack.

Latray, 26, 311 26th St. N., recently was arrested for felony assault with a weapon and misdemeanor criminal mischief in an alleged attack Vermillion, and is held on $25,000 bond.

He told police that Rivera was involved in the break-in, and also led them to 16-year-old Kyle King.

King told police that Lamere asked his girlfriend, Cory Baker, to take part in a plan to "roll" Adams.

Baker told detectives that a group of people asked to her help set up Adams. The wig Rivera was wearing was hers, she told police.

Rivera told police he was with a group of friends, including Book, the night the break-in occurred, except for a period between 10 p.m. and midnight, when the group went out for drinks. Book corroborated the statement, then said he lied about Latray.

To further complicate things, the couple who actually live in 1105, Patricia Ann Larson, 46, and her common-law husband, Ernest Gene Lamere Sr., 52, were arrested on drug charges Feb. 17 in a local motel. Larson said they were hiding there because her life had been threatened.